Hello and welcome to my personal webpages!
I am an aspiring academic and currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. My research falls under the broad rubric of Bioethics and particularly professional medical ethics, broadly understood. Whilst my background is in philosophy and 'applied ethics' my interests are interdisciplinary. I am less interested in applied ethics and normative solutions to the dilemmas of medicine and medical practice than I am with 'meta-bioethical' questions of ethics as an aspect of professional practice and our broader culture and society. To this end I am mostly interested in using social theory to examine how morality and ethics are produced, reproduced and 'done' in various domains of medicine and healthcare including clinical practice, medical education, governance, management and academia. I am therefore interested in reflexively situating academic bioethics as an aspect of our social, cultural and political engagement with the moral and ethical questions of medicine, healthcare and the biosciences.
I recently (December 2011) completed my PhD at Queen's University Belfast. The title of my thesis is 'Taking Education Seriously: Developing Bourdieuan Social Theory in the Context of Teaching and Learning Medical Ethics in the UK Undergraduate Medical Degree.' The abstract and contents page is over on my academia.edu page, chapters are available from me on request. There is a review of the work here.
On this site you can find details of my published work and my work in progress. There is also a page for book reviews. My full CV is here.
I also exist elsewhere on the web:
Professionally at academia.edu: http://qub.academia.edu/NathanEmmerich and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bioethicsuk. And on LinkedIn.
I also have personal pages on google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/107782864095056216776/posts the facebook http://www.facebook.com/nathan.emmerich and on twitter https://twitter.com/nathanemmerich. You may amuse yourself at my taste in (folk) music over on last.fm.
I'm going to try to start blogging regularly here, really I am.